Review of MBLAQ "Cry"

Ok so normally I am not into ballads because honestly I just wanna dance and feel happy and ballads just don't inspire that glee or that wild charge that other music does. That being said I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this song. The first time I listened to it I kinda dismissed it as boring but after reading my sister's review of the song I decided to watch it one more time so I could understand what she was talking about and I actually found myself liking the song and the video.



The Costumes:
I have to agree with my sister that the costumes in this video were very much a step forward for all kpop fashion, especially these guys. Again, I am not a fan of highly colorful, highly chaotic clothes that look like they just put all their costume choices in a huge pile on the floor and then had a free-for-all grabbing whatever they could get their hands on and dressing in that (for example see f.cuz "Wanna Be Your Love"). I really liked the outfits that they are wearing in the rain, don't know why exactly but I think they all look very sleek and well put together but also very unique in style. So yes, 8 points for their costume choices, having 2 points deducted for the big thick black gloves.

The makeup didn't bother me except for the makeup at 1:20 which was a little too feminine/drag queen with the blue and the glitter. I also thought that the blond haired guys eye was open at 3:29 and that he just had one wonked out eye that wouldn't close because of too much plastic surgery or something but I found it funny rather that disturbing lol

The Dance:
The dancing was all good to me, not counting the underwater stuff which I will get to later. I didn't particularly think the Oeteke? Oeteke? part at 0:35 - 0:38 sec was sensual like my sister did. I mean it seems like there is raunchy hip thrusting in nearly all kpop songs nowadays and to me this was just their way of raunchy hip thrusting when they are sad instead of like say in SS501's "Love Ya" where they are trying to pick up a girl. So this is mournful hip thrusting. My favorite part of the whole video was at 44-46sec when they throw their arms open and fall to their knees. To me this just displays the emotion of the song so well and conveys everything that they could be thinking like "Why?", pain, sadness, grief,despair, hopelessness and so on. Very nice part.

There is a part at 3:16-3:18 where the guy looks like he is on a slip'n slide and does this nifty little spin in the pouring rain. My first thought was "That looks so fun!" and I kinda lost the feeling of sadness that the song was trying to portray but I think that's just me lol

Them dancing under water... yeah... I'm gonna have to agree with my sister's roommate Veronica on this one. It is just way to feminine and I think the tattered clothing actually takes away from the effect by obscuring all the potentially beautiful shapes that they are making underwater. If the clothes were longer and more spread out instead of concentrated into one lump around they guy's body it might have been better.

So for the whole video I give it a 7 out of 10 and might consider adding it to a cd of mine in the future.

For those who are wondering here are the names of those in MBlaq:

@0:06 is Thunder/Cheondung

@0:15 is Seungho and he is the leader of MBLAQ

@0:27 is G.O (Byunghee is his real name but it's country so he uses G.O) main vocalist

@0:31 is Joon who is my personal favorite and is the uber hot guy tied to the bed in Kan Miyoun's Going Crazy music video.

@2:44 is MIR he's the main rapper and maknae (youngest)